중년기 여성의 생활사건 스트레스와 우울에 관한 연구 = A study on life-events stress and depression among middle-aged women

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study was carried out to investigate the relationship between life-events stress and depression, in order to identify health care strategies to improve the mental health promotion among middle-aged women.
The subjects in the study were 517 mothers aged 35~59 years old of students in a middle school and two high school located in Pusan.
The instruments for this study were $quot;$quot;Lee Pyoung Sook's social readjustment rating scale$quot;$quot; to assess life-events stress, and $quot;$quot;Beck's Depression Inventory(BDI)$quot;$quot; to evaluate depression.
The collected data were analysed with Frequency, Percentage, Means, Standard Deviations, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson Correlation, Spearman Correlation, Chi-square test, Mantel-Haenszel test for linear association.
The results this study were as follows :
1. The total stress scores were with in the range of the lowest was zero and the highest was 8062.68. The average for all the women was 608.72. When classifying life-events into 17 factors, the life-events stress to present marital life, economy and work, marital affairs of parents and of children, family conflicts were higher than the other 13 factors.
2. The total stress score was significantly higher in post-menopausal women, those who dissatisfied with marriage, those who had less support from spouse, those who had ill health status(all P$lt;0.05).
3. The total depression scores were with in the range of the lowest was zero and the highest was 51. The average for all the women was 15.65. The total depression score was significantly by age, marital status, level of education, menopausal status, satisfaction of marriage support of spouse, health status(all P$lt;0.05).
4. The correlation coefficient for life-events stress and depression was
r=.3686(P$lt;0.001), indicating that increased stress is related to higher depression score.

It is concluded that, middle-aged women were under a lot of life-events stress and this stress had correlation with depression. Thus middle-aged women should develop coping with strategies to improve their mental health.